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A03696 Of the rich man and Lazarus Certaine sermons, by Robert Horne. Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. 1619 (1619) STC 13823; ESTC S104236 106,903 146

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OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARVS Certaine Sermons By ROBERT HORNE LVKE 12.21 So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe and is not rich in God GALAT. 6.10 While we haue therefore time let vs doe good vnto all men but specially to them which are of the houshold of faith LONDON Printed by Ber Alsop for IOHN HODGETS 1619. TO THE VVORTHY IVSTICE OF CHESTER Sir Thomas Chamberlaine Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Councell in the Marches of WALES Right Worshipfull I Haue presumed vnder your worthy Name to send forth a few Obseruations such as they are on the Parable of the Rich man and Lazarus A Scripture that may well beset by the Preacher to an age of such fulnesse of sinne as ours is An age and time wherein vngodlinesse Preface to the trunesse of Religion which as the a L. of Plessis once sayde was wont but to whisper men in the eare and lispingly to speake between the teeth doth now most boldly and without all blush of shame with open mouth call vpon both Bench and Pulpit for protection Diues hath many sonnes at this day sprung from his loines of cruelty and the contempt of the poore and for his brethren among vs they be not (b) Luc. 16 28. fiue onely but more then fiue hundred all which liuing in no feare of God or death and impudently in all the deedes of sinne require the sharpest edge of Discipline Gods and mans Therefore and toward the reformation of so many as God shall incline to reade with some conscience the ensuing Discourse I haue to my poore skill done somewhat in this fearefull Parable of Diues That little which is done is according to the Scriptures and humbly commended to your Worship by One that doth loue and reuerence You for the good parts of Iustice and Piety which are noted to be in you by those that know you and appeareth by this that you spare no trauell and accept no faces of men or letters in matters of publike hearing whether in Terme or out And who can but commend this mind of yours in so scarce a world of iust and painefull Magistrates Your piety in Gods matters is testified sufficiently and plainely by your exemplary obedience to Gods Sabbothes where your good affection to the Word in a louing affabilitie to the Preachers thereof is obserued and reuerenced by as many as truly know you And for the integrity of your mind in Court causes you haue as many witnesses as the Court hath eares And indeed how can Iustice badly follow that hath so good fore-leaders I write not this to giue titles onely in your person Sir I desire to stirre vp others of like place to beare you company in so good a way of piety integritie and in corrupt iustice if they be behind Also my desire is by so true a relation of so many good offices and effects of your chiefe Stewardship in the Marches performed among vs by you matters which haue a good report of al men of the truth it selfe humbly to prouoke you to goe forward in this narrow path wherein sofew now walke of sincere and conscionable Magistracy So shal you one day heare this comfortable saying Mat. 25.21 c It is well done good seruant faithfull But I may not say much in the Preface where so little is sayd in the Booke it selfe and therefore to conclude I say good Sir g●t ground of the common enemy dayly as I trust you doe and keepe what you get Let no man let nothing pull this hope from you ●nto which you are entred till you haue finished the dayes of your faith here and the Ancient of dayes take you to those dayes of endlesse life which He hath prepared in His Kingdome of glory for all that loue and waite for his comming as I doubt not you doe and pray you may doe so still and with increase that is more and more to the true good of your seuerall charges and the sure good of your own soule for which hee prayeth and will pray Who is Your Worships humbly to be commmaunded for his best in the Gospell ROBERT HORNE From Mrs. Danets house neere Ludlow the 19. of May. 1619. OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARVS Luc. 16.19.20 c. There was a certaine Rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linnen and fared well and delicately euery day c. THis chapter is chiefely directed written against Pharisaical couetousnes and delicacie exhorting to liberalitie and a care of the poore and this vnder two parables the first of the Steward who did wisely though not iustly Luc. 16.1.2 c. the other of the rich man and Lazarus v. 19.20 c. The parable of the vniust Steward doth not warrant any pickery or vnfaithfulnes in stewards but only doth implie that as hee made him friends vniustly so wee should both iustly and wisely make vs friends of this Mammon of wealth v. 9. by dispersing abroad Ver. 9. that the fountaines of our liberalitie may runne ouer to all that neede Prou. 5.16 The Pharises that were couetous hearing this Ver. 14. v. 14. thought that Christ spake foolishly and dangerously in so saying they could not endure that their sore of couetousnes should be touched and when his hand came neere it they put it from them with a scoffe and mocked him they would neuer beleeue but any man might serue God and gather riches or how should the Common-wealth stand and how should one man bee aboue another or would hee haue all men alike as if they had thus reasoned against him as against one that spake both absurdly and impiously Ver. 15. But vers 15. hee tels them that desire of riches and loue of themselues had so blinded them that they sawe not where they were nor in what dangerous wayes and that because they held themselues wise therefore they iudged him foolish and his doctrine that was wise ridiculous but that that pleased them God abhorred and so he commeth to the Scripture now read v. 19. which I take to be not any story or thing done but as was said a parable where his chiefe purpose is to disswade these Pharises from cruell hardnes and a carnall life by the example of this rich man hung vp as it were in chaines in hell for a terrour to others because he fed himselfe curiously and fed not poore Lazarus And heere vnder the persons of the rich man and Lazarus we haue two sorts or states of men such as were then in the world are now and shall be to the end of time In both which we may note their different states and that which is common to them their different states are heere on the earth or after they left It in their liues they differed very much and after their deaths much more for the rich man was finely clothed or clothed with soft and gorgeous rayment and for his fare it was delicate and of the best euery day v. 19. the